Next weekend, June 21 and 22, MARS60 is organizing their Journées de l'Astronomie Solaire de l'Oise et du Nord @ Baron (France). My objective is to meet other Sol'Ex users and what's the next level.
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Sunspot AR4100 third tour AR4055 and 4079
Sunspot AR4100 made his third tour around the Sun. I made images of all the three tours of this Sunspot. At first this was sunspot AR4055 in the beginning of April, on May 1, it was sunspot AR4079 and by end of May it was Sunspot AR4100.
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Friday, May 30, 2025
Flare M3.5 captured with Sol'Ex May 30, 2025
First light this morning around UT5h00. The objective was to test my new set up. My Sol'Ex pro 2nd Gen slit was equiped with a new adapter.
With this new Omegon adapter, the distance between Sol'Ex and Herschel Wedge is getting closer. As a result:
With this new Omegon adapter, the distance between Sol'Ex and Herschel Wedge is getting closer. As a result:
- more stable configuration of Sol'Ex as 1,25 tube is now amost entirely enclosed.
- getting more back focus; from 1cm to 3cm back focus
During imaging, the spectrum line did light up around sun spot AR4100. This was imaged both in CaIIK and H-Alpha. It was a moderate flare M3.5. See details below:
Setting:
TLAPO80/480 with Sol'Ex Pro 2nd Gen slit and ASI678MM
Herschel Wedge
Tilt <0,6° and Sx/Sy <1,1
Software: SharpCap, Inti, Jsolex, CS4, DeNoise AI
Saturday, May 24, 2025
ATT Essen 2025
My first visit to to ATT Essen, the biggest European Astronomy fair, was back in 2017. I missed some editions during Covid-19 period but attend all others. This year ATT Essen celebrated40 years. Beginning of this year I submitted a couple of pictures and a short text answerring their request "Wanted: Besucher-Statements für Jubiläumsschrift zum 40. ATT! Einsendungen mit Name und Wohnort erbeten bis 28.02.2025 an karsten.plewnia@sternwarte-essen.de. Awesome to see that my submission was published in their publication which was handed over at the entrance.
A modular mount was presented which has some great features. I was also impressed by the PiFinder. A rasperry Pi with camera and software which is placed on your scope (typically dobson) to find your way at the sky. If you don't have a goto.. this is a great support; cost about 400€. I finally bought a ZWO715MC camera for a reduced price.
This year only Helios colleague Johan and myself went to ATT Essen. We left very early around 7h15 which resulted in an early arrival in Essen. We parked our car at Parkplatz 1 and started electrical charging. When we arrived at the entrance it was 9h30 with a long waiting row.
Once inside we first visited the (class)rooms with used equipment. Johan immediately bought a set of color filters while I was looking for connectors. Around 11AM we split; Johan joined a lecture on optics and I visited the other stands. We met each other after the lecture and took a traditional German meal: Schnitzel and frites.
Some interesting things to mention :
During the tour we met some people from Belgium: Philip from Mira, Hugo from Astromarket, Joost from Capella Hoegaarden and Daniel from our own solar chat. With Daniel, I also joined the lecture by dr. Udo Siepmann who shared his experience capturing the sun.
Selfie with Dr. Udo Siepmann |
We left around 5pm, fully satisfied and again a great ATT edition.
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